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Council & local affairs, 1842

624 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 32

The Municipal Corporation To the Editor of the Australian JUSTITIA

The Australian · Wednesday 6 July 1842 · page 2

SIR,—I should not again address you upon this subject, only your "No Sect" contemporaries are labouring most strenuously to maintain a standing which it is not…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, July 5

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 7 July 1842 · page 1
Also in The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

Present: The Governor, the Chief Justice, the Commander of the Forces, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Collector of Customs, the Auditor General, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Berry, Mr…

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L[?]gislative Council. Wednesday, July 6

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 7 July 1842 · page 2

PRESENT: the Governor, the Chief Justice, the Commander of the Forces, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Collector of Customs, the Auditor-General, Mr…

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, July 5, 1842. COUNCIL

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 7 July 1842 · page 4

His excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the general objects of the undermentioned bill, bow under consideration of the legislative council, be published for general information…

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The Municipal Bill

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 7 July 1842 · page 2

The liberal proposal of the GOVERNOR, to give £5,000 a-year from the general revenue, in addition to the £5,000 to be given in aid of the Police Fund, we should…

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Sydney Municipal Bill

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 7 July 1842 · page 2

THE great petition against the Municipal Bill was presented yesterday by Mr. James Macarthur, who supported it with much greater tameness than was anticipated. In fact the honorable member seems…

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Legislative Council

The New South Wales Examiner · Friday 8 July 1842 · page 3

This bring the day appointed for the presentation of the Petition against the Corporation Bill, a feverish excitement prevailed out of doors, and the strangers gallery in the Council Chamber was…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, July 8

The Sydney Herald · Friday 8 July 1842 · page 2

PRESENT, the Governor, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Collector of Customs, the Auditor-General, Mr. Berry, Mr. Jones, Mr. Blaxland, Mr. H. Mocarthur,…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, July 5th, 1842. Police and Public Works Bill. (Concluded from our last.)

The Australian · Friday 8 July 1842 · page 2

Mr. BERRY was opposed to the Bill on the same ground as he was opposed to the Municipal Bill, and he thought that if they passed the latter Bill, they ought to pass the present one too: as by…

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Legislative Council

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 9 July 1842 · page 2

ON Thursday last the Council recommitted the franchise clause of the Municipal Bill, and the Attorney General gave notice of a motion for Tuesday next, to insert £20 instead of £40, as the…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, July 7, 1842

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1842 · page 2
Also in Australasian Chronicle

Present:— The Governor, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Collector of Customs. the Auditor General, Messrs. Campbell, Berry, Jones, Blaxland, H…

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Legislative Council. Orders of the Day. Tuesday, July 12

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 9 July 1842 · page 2

1. Sydney Corporation Bill, further consideration. 2. Melbourne Corporation Bill; second rending…

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Municipal and Police Bills. a Teetotaller's Advice to His Fellow-working Men, of Sydney

The Teetotaller and General Newspaper · Saturday 9 July 1842 · page 3

FELLOW-CITIZENS,-- So, many of you, I hear, have been induced to put your names to the petitions which the Australian nobility, alias the "Settlers," have got up against these…

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Council Papers. Better Administration of Justice Act Amendment Bill.—1842 Report of the Committee upon a Bill to amend an Act, intituled "An Act to provide for the more effectual Administration of Justice in New South Wales, and its Dependencies."

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 9 July 1842 · page 2

THE Committee appointed on the 10th May, 1842, to whom was referred a Bill "To amend an Act, intituled 'An Act to provide for the more effectual Administration of Justice in…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, July 6th

The Australian · Monday 11 July 1842 · page 2

Present—the Governor, the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Collector of Customs, the Auditor General, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Berry, Mr. Jones, Mr. Blaxland,…

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The Corporaton Act Oe Council. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1842 · page 3

Sir, It was suggested in the Legislative Council, that the landlords or owners should pay rales for houses that do not qualify for voting for…

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Original Correspondence. the Municipal Franchise Question. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 12 July 1842 · page 3

GENTLEMEN.—On Thursday last, the Attorney-General in Council, gave notice of his intention to move, on Tuesday next, the recommittal of the fifty-fourth clause of the…

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The Chronicle. Tuesday, July 12, 1842. the Municipal Bill

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 12 July 1842 · page 2

We insert in another place two letters upon the subject of the municipal bill. They are the bone fide productions of two operatives. We request the members of council to read them before breakfast…

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